Drones that fly for days and kill hoi polloi from naut mi away are the hereafter of warfare . But before they can become the present of warfare , we have to be able to able to take flight many simultaneously . We ’re on our fashion !
At Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico , ten weaponized drones flew together — six MQ-9 Reapers and four MQ-1 Predators , controlled by ten separate team at the same site — an increment of four over the previous record in just on class . Four supererogatory drones might not seem like a gargantuan leap for robotlike warfare , but each drone requires a host of humans back on the dry land to ensure they do n’t corkscrew into someone ’s b . And the power to align ten such teams at once shows just how far droning war — or at least its potential — has advanced , and just how crucial this is to the US .
There ’s no reason to expect this pace to decelerate . As The Aviationist ’s David Cenciotti says , the “ daylight when there are more poke than conventional planes flying at a certain time ” is near . [ USAFviaAviatonist ]
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